On KDE 4.9.4 could ramp it up to 1-2gb in use multiple programs. After closing everything the desktop would only return to idle at 1.1gb or so. As fresh startup to desktop usually started out at 470-480mb for 4.9.4.

Notice on 4.10 drops down to under 1gb so seems more ram is being released. And KDE seems consistently 200-300mb lighter than Cinnamon 14 under same conditions & same apps being used. Also includes fresh startup with Cinnamon weighing in around 700-800mb to desktop. And KDE same user startup apps weighs in around 460mb-500mb.

Not scientific just day to day observation..

Wow, it is so cool screenshots! What theme do you use? What configs? Thanks for your review. I've been waiting for this so long, and now I found it from you Now I wanna install KDE 4.10 more and more

Just copy the code above and insert into your signature block in forum user control panel .But have to donate a few bucks to Mint to be called a supporter.http://linuxmint.com/donors.phpOtherwise there are other Mint & KDE signature bars in one of the threads here..

Just copy the code above and insert into your signature block in forum user control panel .But have to donate a few bucks to Mint to be called a supporter.http://linuxmint.com/donors.phpOtherwise there are other Mint & KDE signature bars in one of the threads here..

Not, not the point I asked to you. I mean, how to create the picture? Can I do it by Inkscape? Is there any tutorial in design? Thanks...

but this resulted in some error in line 3, so I opened the list file and deleted the whole line. Then it processed fine, after 20 minutes the output was clear no errors, as far as I could see, but when I tried this:

So I rebooted, grub menu was correct, then it started with boot messages and after a few secconds I'm getting a console root (Welcome to Linux Mint Maya KDE), OK my usuall username, then password... ok, but no graphical session afterwards, just a blinking console.

What should I do next/type in the console?

EDIT: startx was the command (thanks to Se7en from the #linuxmint-chat )Now it's fine... The 1st thing I did was to enable automatic user login and passwordless login, but the startx doesn't start automatically

Is it "safe" to use in Mint 14 KDE?I'm asking because I upgraded KDE in a previous version of Mint (to 4.8, if I'm not mistaken) and although most things were fine I lost some functionality, like the "edit menu" option when right clicking on the panel's menu.I don't want that to happen again.

When I installed Linux Mint 14 KDE 64 bit in late December I was so happy with it I vowed I wasn't going to gamble with the great stability of the distro and upgrade to KDE 4.10 until it came out in the next release. However when I read on the forum that a number of KDE users had installed the new version with no problems I started having second thoughts. Yesaterday, using ZeroZero's instructions, I took the leap and installed KDE 4.10. While I was initially apprehensive I am now so glad I did, as it runs smooth as silk with no problems whatsoever. Granted I haven't run it very long, and my tests are in their infancy, but my computer has never run better. This desktop is awesome! Version 4.10 simply makes an already polished desktop sparkle even brighter!

jazz.h wrote:but this resulted in some error in line 3, so I opened the list file and deleted the whole line. Then it processed fine, after 20 minutes the output was clear no errors, as far as I could see, but when I tried this:

this is not very helpful "some error" what error?"in line 3" what line 3?it's hard to help you without knowing exactly what happened and what you did

It was about the invalid apt sources in line 3. Some term like "ain" or similar. Sorry I can't remember. Tell me how to search this through log and I will report exactly about it.Anyway, it seems everything is working fine, exept I can't start startx automatically...

Strange... After yesterday's digging into the problem, I performed a Mint Update and it found a bunch of libs... about 15mb, they all had 4.10 in their names... and today KDE booted automatically in graphical mode (!?!). I hope this will be permanent behaviour

1. My graphics card is ATI HD3200 and I wasn't using proprietary drivers. Before upgrading KDE, after dist upgrade and new kernel to 3.2.0-37 on my MintKDE 64bit, upon reboot I noticed distorted screen picture on my 22" monitor 1680x1050, display was saying it was the right resolution and refresh rate (59.9hz) but the whole picture was shifted to right, I tried changing the resolution to 1280x1024 then back to 1680x1050 but it was the same. It was distorted until I performed auto adjust on my monitor. I assume it's now the horizontal refresh a little different than before.I don't know if this has to do anything with startx.

2. When upgraded to KDE and while inspecting the problem I came back to Display properties in System settings and I changed Primary output to be VGA-0 because it was set to None (this card also has hdmi output). Perhaps this fixed startx before the mint updates...?

I found the resolution in this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1859820&page=2. I noticecd that after manual load of X'es and KDE 4.10 my fonts were actually not rendered at all and the first initial load was always freezing at "Checking battery state ... " So I did:sudo apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-experimental-310 nvidia-settings-experimental-310sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorgrebootAnd... still the same issue However now my fonts were nice and silky.

The only option that actually does the trick for mew is to get rid of xorg.conf file from /etc/X11 completely. Once xorg.conf was removed (renamed) X'es and KDE 4.10 starts loading properly. Though I'm not sure how it is affecting other things in system and KDE itself.

jazz.h and Siarra i would advise both to open topics to debug the issues that you are experimenting specially because none of those issues is directly related with the kde upgrade:

- jazz.h doesn't even has kubuntu/backports in the sources.list and one could (eventually) assume that the upgrade to 4.10 was only partial

- Siarra has (as far as i can tell) graphic card issues consequence of the first dist-upgrade and the kernel upgrade and not the kde upgrade (that was one of the reasons i advised to do the upgrade in 2 steps in my post above)